Local artist LaVern Scott attended Red River International Art Show May 1 in Vernon, Texas, where she took third place in a three-state show featuring 60 artists.
As part of a wider investigation into reports that teenage girls in Wichita and Arkansas City have been solicited for sex over the Internet, a 25-year-old man has been charged in Sedgwick County.
The Washburn University debate team has won the Overall Debate Sweepstakes at the Golden Gate Invitational at the University of California-Berkeley. Topekan Aly Fiebrantz was recognized as the eighth-place speaker out of more than 120 people.
Arkansas City police say a resident there received a suspicious call. Police say Global Sweepstakes Enterprises called the citizen and asked them to send personal information to Jamaica in exchange for a prize.
The Kansas Supreme Court this month suspended a Wichita lawyer's license for three years for his failure to properly handle four medical malpractice cases.
Barack Obama, the reluctant war president, spent part of Wednesday's eighth anniversary of the U.S. operation in Afghanistan discussing the difficult conflict with his national security team, a day after doing the same with bipartisan leaders of Congress.
There's a new face in town when it comes to lending at a local bank. Ronda H. Bailey has joined The Bank N. A. as executive vice president/chief credit administrative officer.